The Whiteboard

MAY 12, 2016

It’s been quite a while since The Whiteboard took a look at the RCSA and the role it plays in our New Zealand recruitment industry. Almost five years in fact. Somehow, we must have become distracted by other events and goings-on and overlooked the work being done by our “… leading industry and professional body for the recruitment and the human resources services sector in Australia and New Zealand.” But then this morning I learned that things aren’t going quite s

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Social Talent

MAY 12, 2016

As more baby boomers (born from the early 1960s to the early 1980s) are retiring, the global workforce landscape is expected to slowly start changing as the millennials (born from the early 1980s to the early 2000s) start entering into the scene. It is imperative for employers to know and understand these Generation Y-ers, as millennials are expected to make up the workforce by 46% by 2020.

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Newton Software

MAY 12, 2016

Never Get Blindsided By an Offer Rejection Again. Due to the competitive landscape of today’s job market, finding and closing top candidates has become increasingly difficult. For this reason, when you do find the ideal candidate, you want to be certain that you do everything in your power to guarantee that they accept the position. Every employer has experienced a candidate walking out on an offer, and it hurts.

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Social Talent

MAY 12, 2016

It’s the ultimate showdown of the office buffoons: David Brent (played by Ricky Gervais) from the UK Office vs Michael Scott (played by Steve Carell) from the US Office. Both are general managers of their respective branches for large paper distribution companies and they are both equally idiotic as each other – we love them both. But have you ever thought about which boss would make a better recruiter?

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Spark Hire

MAY 12, 2016

There’s nothing worse than watching a promising candidate struggle during a job interview. They give rambling answers, sweat profusely, and draw one too many blanks. You just hope they can turn things around. But the truth of the matter is, the interview might be going south because it got off to a rocky start on your end. Whether it’s a gruff welcome or a confusing first question, there’s a lot that the interviewer might do to set an interviewee up for failure.

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CareerBuilder

MAY 12, 2016

In Hollywood and pop culture, the rite of passage into adulthood is often characterized by a myriad of zany events. In reality, most of us face the transition when we move out from under the wings of our parents and begin to live our own sovereign lives. For me, what I remember most was a sit-down conversation I had with my father. It began with him beckoning me from my bedroom into our kitchen, where I found him sitting at one end of the table with a seat pulled away for me at the opposite end.

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FireFish Software

MAY 12, 2016

Words are an effective tool to communicate branding, culture, and identity. When well placed, they can attract the right people to your website, increasing reach, engagement, and conversion rates.

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Workable

MAY 12, 2016

In today’s market, where 51% of employed workers are open to a new job despite not actively looking for one, recruitment marketing is more important than ever. In fact, companies that aren’t using marketing tactics as part of their overall recruitment strategy are missing out on the opportunity to find, attract, engage, nurture, and convert people into engaged candidates.

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Undercover Recruiter

MAY 12, 2016

No matter what industry you’re in, there will come a time when you’ll need to win some new business or impress a potential client or customer. You’ll have to rock them with a pitch that not only blows them away, but also shows that you can provide the answers to the questions they’ve been trying. View Article. A Beginner’s Guide To Pitching Like a Pro.

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Workable

MAY 12, 2016

As product and technology teams become increasingly entwined, the number of professionals who identify as a ‘designer’ is on the rise. Many jobs titles include the word ‘designer’, f rom product and industrial designers to interaction and user experience. There are visual designers, graphic designers, surface pattern designers —and that’s before we’ve got started on furniture, clothes or architecture….

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Staffing Talk

MAY 12, 2016

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Linkedin Talent Blog

MAY 12, 2016

While many recruiters know that people usually leave a job because of their manager and not the company, how many of us actually fold that knowledge into our day-to-day recruiting efforts? The fat is, for the candidates we find, a bad boss can overwhelm a great compensation package and killer culture, while a great boss can make them overlook the fact that a company has a bit of a brand problem.

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Staffing Talk

MAY 12, 2016

" If I were younger, I'd want a job helping build the 700moh @HyperloopOne. It just had its first test run. Apparently, it will reduce that worlds-most-boring highway 5 trip between San Francisco and Los Angeles to 30 minutes.<iframe width="280" height="158" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_jAPZRbF8tI?rel=0"… [.

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Harger Howe Recruitment

MAY 12, 2016

Twitter is a very useful recruitment tool. As of March 31,2016, Twitter stated that there are 310 million monthly users! Another important note is that 83% of Twitter users are using the network via mobile in an increasingly mobile world. Twitter has become a highly relevant facet in peoples’ work and personal lives, so it’s essential that you stay up-to date on Twitter strategies.

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Recruiting Blogs

MAY 12, 2016

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1-Page

MAY 12, 2016

It’s no secret the disconnect between hiring managers and recruiters is a hot topic in talent acquisition right now, for all the wrong reasons. As if the recruiting and hiring process didn’t have enough wild cards thrown at it, we as internal recruiters are weighing things down by messing up one of the most important elements of success – the initial intake meeting with the hiring manager.

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Recruiting Blogs

MAY 12, 2016

So this is the 9th presentation of the conference. Titled “The Best Kept Secret in Boolean Search” by Mark Tortorici. First Thing Mark made clear that despite what some say, Boolean is far from dead and probably not going any place soon. Below are the secrets to sourcing and making a good string. . Natural language. Verbs that describe what an individual does.

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Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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NPA Worldwide

MAY 12, 2016

Today’s guest blogger is Bill Benson with WilliamCharles Search Group located in Grand Rapids, MI. WilliamCharles is an executive search and professional recruiting firm specialized in finding managerial and executive talent in finance, HR, operations, sales/marketing as well as president/CEO roles. They have a concentration of clients in Michigan but they also work across the US.

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Recruiting Blogs

MAY 12, 2016

In today’s world, the number of freelancers is growing at a very great speed with people looking for professionals to do some easy tasks for them online. This has led to the development of a new field of work that stretches across the globe. You can have your CV or cover letter among others written for you for a fee. image source: pixabay.com.

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Recruitics

MAY 12, 2016

Performance-based advertising models, such as the Pay-Per-Click (PPC) model, help talent acquisition professionals save budget dollars by allowing them to pay for their ads only when they perform. However, as we covered in a recent post, true efficiency in a PPC strategy cannot be achieved without optimization (you can read more on that here ). Optimization can take place in a number of ways, as the article linked above shows; however, there is such a thing as over-optimization–or when you

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Good To Know

MAY 12, 2016

Well, hello there. How you doin’? Cool, cool… so here’s the thing: I have this little group, over on the Facebok, and it’s kinda cool. If you’re into the whole “talent acquisition/ HR tech sexy” kinda thing.

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Yoh

MAY 12, 2016

Are you confident that you are getting the best contingent workers at the best rate while maintaining the latest labor guidelines and compliance measures? It’s an intentionally loaded question because managing your contingent workforce is full of complicated checks and balances. When HR and procurement are working in unison, they can effectively manage the processes and costs.

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Undercover Recruiter

MAY 12, 2016

It pains me to say it, but group interviews make sense. When HR resources are tight, businesses can swap the good old one-to-one method for an all-in-one approach instead. By getting all potential candidates together in one room, employers save time and manpower money. Watching applicants operate in a group setting also offers them a great insight. View Article. 9 Nifty Nuggets for Nailing a Group Interview.

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Hireology

MAY 12, 2016

Each year, retail auto dealers spend more than $512 million to hire new people. But is that money being invested wisely? A new Hireology and DrivingSales HR Practices survey reveals that the hiring process is broken. According to the survey, dealers are wrestling with major challenges in their hiring practices, including the quality of their hires. No wonder: the survey also shows that dealers are not giving hiring managers any consistent tools and processes to work with.

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Entelo

MAY 12, 2016

To a certain degree, every company has inbound recruiting. The shame is that not every company has a coherent inbound recruiting strategy. It may sound counterintuitive at first, but inbound recruiting can help you make better, more efficient and effective hires at every level of your company. Inbound recruiting, in short, can be defined as drawing in applicants – but there’s much more method to that madness.

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Glassdoor for Employers

MAY 12, 2016

How competitive is your industry when it comes to benefits, and where does your company stack up? According to a recent Glassdoor survey , three in five people consider benefits and perks among their top considerations before applying for a job. As your company competes for top talent and aims to present a competitive package to candidates, is your benefits package up to par?

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RecruitLoop

MAY 12, 2016

It is essential to have an effective Human Resources (HR) business plan in place. Use these five steps to help you secure the success of your business.

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Snark Attack

MAY 12, 2016

Employee engagement is one of those perpetual trending topics in HR and recruiting, probably because for years now, pundits and practitioners alike still haven’t figured out how to confront what seems to be a fairly endemic case of malaise and apathy perpetually plaguing our workforce. I’m not sure why it is that talent leaders and recruiting […].

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